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How Iteration-itis Kills Good Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Instead, there was a problem with the process that an idea generator had to go through before they stood in front of senior leadership. You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted. The idea generator had to show the idea to their line manager.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious. Leadership and teams find it hard to come together to scope and resource projects appropriately as well as put projects on the shelf (or kill them) when needed. Acknowledgements.

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Taming Your Company's Most Elusive Beast

Harvard Business Review

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place.